Welcome to my blog and thanks soso much for spending a little while peeping into my world

... all from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa!

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney

I have just been to collect a parcel from the Post Office, and was delighted when it was such a BIG box!!!!

I won BLOG CANDY from

Audrey E ...

wow what a lot of yummy gorgeous toys!!! I am over the moon!!!

Thanks, thanks and thanks again, Audrey!!! You have no idea how much this means to me. Looking at these things that I have NEVER heard of or seen before, I now realise that we are really starved of such fabulous crafting goodies, living in South Africa!

Audrey blog is HERE. It's well worth a visit because Audrey is one of the busiest crafters I know, and underneath all her talent is a heart of gold, shown by her generosity and willingness to give!

God bless you Audrey, you have made me experience Christmas in JANUARY!!!!

Monday, January 30, 2012

I love taking part in the Greeting card challenge every Monday on The Outlawz.

Today's theme was 'HEARTS' - not necessarily Valentines, and this is what I made:

I printed the sentiment (one of my own) straight onto the card, and used a Marianne's Creatables corner die which I then cut out and used as an embellishment. To that I added stickles to accentuate the heart on it, another little gold heart and two little gold gems. A strip of gold card was added along the base to ground the card.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

To make it a little easier for you and to give you some inspiration, here's my take on the sketch:

The image featured on my card is Penny Paisley 1 and she's coloured in Copics. The DP is a gorgeous silver on pink paisley paper and the mats are a very shiny silver die cut and a bright pink embossed rectangle. I added a silver hard and some sparkly silver stars as embellies!

Add your creation to the inlinkz on the Catch the Bug blog HERE for a chance to win some fabulous prizes!